re: writing this - as - is this the right place? Is there somewhere that I can really get things moving?

I'm an amputee, active, all is well, life is good, no need to feel sorry for me. I'm what's called a Below Knee amputee, or, I got my meat knee, yay!

AK, it's a different story. No need to cry either - usually. At least if you're not on some disability allowance, and have good enough of insurance - most things will be covered. But even for the top payers, highest income you can imagine - usually, if you're AK, you're likely (in our day and age) to be eligible for mechanized knee (the SoC's inside is what it got it's named for, but it's really the motors that does the heavy lifting)(They're most commonly known as Micro Processor Knees).

One (There's like maybe 5 MPK models AFAIK) knee, Genium X3, costs a fortune and it's supposedly really good and changed the lifes of amputees worldwide. It uses "4E60 ottobock inductive charger". You can search on ebay, it's ~425$ (used!!!) magnatic induction charger, akin to a Apple Magsafe Chargers. New it's next to impossible to know how much it goes for (Prosthetics is strictly B2B worldwide, which is a bummer for end consumer which are regular people who usually don't deal with SKU's and whatnot), but I'd wager it's probably anywhere from 500 to 1000 USD, and for Americans - well, that without the tarrifs. So it's really an expansive device - that can break on it's own w/o much abuse.

I haven't found the patent for that device, and I suspect - hoping, more apt - that maybe entire class of devices can be "hacked" together with some DC universal chargers and magsafe circuits. Or maybe I'm completely wrong, it's patented, and just suggesting it made ottobock's lawyers upset - in that case I apologize - but in the slim chance it is not patented, and anyone can make similar device - how can I bring it to the attention of some medical hack-a-thons organizers?